My Top 100 Albums Of All-Time - 2025

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The Mantle
Agalloch
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
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2
Number
2

Blackwater Park
Opeth
Peak
2
Weeks
2
Number
3 Up by 5

Winter's Gate
Insomnium
Peak
3
Weeks
2
Number
4 Up by 1

The Liberation
Disillusion
Peak
4
Weeks
2
Number
5 Down by 1

Dirt
Alice in Chains
Peak
4
Weeks
2
Number
6

Kinship
IOTUNN
Peak
6
Weeks
2
Number
7

Lateralus
TOOL
Peak
7
Weeks
2
Number
8 Up by 1

Still Life
Opeth
Peak
8
Weeks
2
Number
9 Up by 1

Ashes Against The Grain
Agalloch
Peak
9
Weeks
2
Number
10 Down by 7

Above The Weeping World
Insomnium
Peak
3
Weeks
2
Number
11 Up by 1

Veil Of Imagination
Wilderun
Peak
11
Weeks
2
Number
12 Up by 11

Woe
An Abstract Illusion
Peak
12
Weeks
2
Number
13 Down by 2

Meteora
Linkin Park
Peak
11
Weeks
2
Number
14 Down by 1

Ten
Pearl Jam
Peak
13
Weeks
2
Number
15 Up by 1

Escape of the Phoenix
Evergrey
Peak
15
Weeks
2
Number
16 Up by 1

The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia
Peak
16
Weeks
2
Number
17 Up by 4

Trench
Twenty One Pilots
Peak
17
Weeks
2
Number
18 Up by 4

Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Peak
18
Weeks
2
Number
19 Up by 11

Heart Like A Grave
Insomnium
Peak
19
Weeks
2
Number
20 Down by 6

Symbolic
Death
Peak
14
Weeks
2
Number
21 Up by 4

Master of Puppets
Metallica
Peak
21
Weeks
2
Number
22 Up by 4

Ride the Lightning
Metallica
Peak
22
Weeks
2
Number
23 Up by 1

Terminal Redux
Vektor
Peak
23
Weeks
2
Number
24 Up by 3

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dream Theater
Peak
24
Weeks
2
Number
25 Debut

Ascension
Paradise Lost
Peak
25
Weeks
1
Number
26 Debut

The Sleeping City
An Abstract Illusion
Peak
26
Weeks
1
Number
27 Down by 8

Mirror Reaper
Bell Witch
Peak
19
Weeks
2
Number
28 Down by 10

The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Ahab
Peak
18
Weeks
2
Number
29

Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore
Peak
29
Weeks
2
Number
30 Down by 2

Access All Worlds
IOTUNN
Peak
28
Weeks
2
Number
31 Up by 6

Absolute Elsewhere
Blood Incantation
Peak
31
Weeks
2
Number
32 Up by 4

Amidst The Ruins
Saor
Peak
32
Weeks
2
Number
33 Down by 13

Holy Hell
Architects
Peak
20
Weeks
2
Number
34 Down by 3

All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects
Peak
31
Weeks
2
Number
35 Up by 8

Shogun
Trivium
Peak
35
Weeks
2
Number
36 Up by 42

In the Court of the Dragon
Trivium
Peak
36
Weeks
2
Number
37 Up by 1

Ghost Reveries
Opeth
Peak
37
Weeks
2
Number
38 Down by 6

Superunknown
Soundgarden
Peak
32
Weeks
2
Number
39 Down by 6

Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins
Peak
33
Weeks
2
Number
40 Down by 6

Fear of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree
Peak
34
Weeks
2
Number
41 Down by 2

Deadwing
Porcupine Tree
Peak
39
Weeks
2
Number
42

The Fall Of Hearts
Katatonia
Peak
42
Weeks
2
Number
43 Up by 1

Fear Inoculum
TOOL
Peak
43
Weeks
2
Number
44 Up by 2

Glow
Countless Skies
Peak
44
Weeks
2
Number
45 Up by 2

Ayam
Disillusion
Peak
45
Weeks
2
Number
46 Up by 9

Stone's Reach
Be'lakor
Peak
46
Weeks
2
Number
47 Debut

From Zero
Linkin Park
Peak
47
Weeks
1
Number
48 Up by 2

Ænima
TOOL
Peak
48
Weeks
2
Number
49 Down by 8

Origin of Symmetry
Muse
Peak
41
Weeks
2
Number
50 Down by 1

Absolution
Muse
Peak
49
Weeks
2
Number
51 Down by 36

In The Nightside Eclipse
Emperor
Peak
15
Weeks
2
Number
52 Down by 7

Storm of the Light's Bane
Dissection
Peak
45
Weeks
2
Number
53 Down by 5

Convergence
Shylmagoghnar
Peak
48
Weeks
2
Number
54 Down by 19

Echoes Of Battle
Caladan Brood
Peak
35
Weeks
2
Number
55 Down by 3

Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains
Peak
52
Weeks
2
Number
56 Down by 3

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden
Peak
53
Weeks
2
Number
57 Down by 1

Marrow Of The Spirit
Agalloch
Peak
56
Weeks
2
Number
58 Up by 16

Across The Dark
Insomnium
Peak
58
Weeks
2
Number
59 Up by 2

Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
Peak
59
Weeks
2
Number
60 Down by 3

Lost Forever // Lost Together
Architects
Peak
57
Weeks
2
Number
61 Down by 10

Écailles De Lune
Alcest
Peak
51
Weeks
2
Number
62 Down by 4

Les Chants De L'Aurore
Alcest
Peak
58
Weeks
2
Number
63 Down by 1

Axioma Ethica Odini
Enslaved
Peak
62
Weeks
2
Number
64 Down by 10

Kivenkantaja
Moonsorrow
Peak
54
Weeks
2
Number
65 Down by 6

The Storm Within
Saturnus
Peak
59
Weeks
2
Number
66 Down by 6

Clancy
Twenty One Pilots
Peak
60
Weeks
2
Number
67 Down by 4

Powerslave
Iron Maiden
Peak
63
Weeks
2
Number
68 Up by 4

Painkiller
Judas Priest
Peak
68
Weeks
2
Number
69 Up by 6

...And Justice For All
Metallica
Peak
69
Weeks
2
Number
70 Debut

Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia
Peak
70
Weeks
1
Number
71 Up by 16

Pale Folklore
Agalloch
Peak
71
Weeks
2
Number
72 Down by 6

Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden
Peak
66
Weeks
2
Number
73 Down by 6

Vs.
Pearl Jam
Peak
67
Weeks
2
Number
74 Down by 6

Transience
Shylmagoghnar
Peak
68
Weeks
2
Number
75 Down by 35

Citadel
Ne Obliviscaris
Peak
40
Weeks
2
Number
76 Down by 7

Illuminate The Path
An Abstract Illusion
Peak
69
Weeks
2
Number
77 Up by 4

Images and Words
Dream Theater
Peak
77
Weeks
2
Number
78 Up by 4

Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden
Peak
78
Weeks
2
Number
79 Debut

Colors
Between The Buried And Me
Peak
79
Weeks
1
Number
80 Up by 10

A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament)
Evergrey
Peak
80
Weeks
2
Number
81 Down by 17

Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
Moonsorrow
Peak
64
Weeks
2
Number
82 Down by 11

Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Emperor
Peak
71
Weeks
2
Number
83 Up by 2

Focus
Cynic
Peak
83
Weeks
2
Number
84 Down by 8

In Absentia
Porcupine Tree
Peak
76
Weeks
2
Number
85 Down by 6

False Light
White Ward
Peak
79
Weeks
2
Number
86 Down by 6

Hidden History of the Human Race
Blood Incantation
Peak
80
Weeks
2
Number
87 Down by 1

Vessels
Be'lakor
Peak
86
Weeks
2
Number
88

Watershed
Opeth
Peak
88
Weeks
2
Number
89 Debut

The Last Will and Testament
Opeth
Peak
89
Weeks
1
Number
90 Up by 4

The Sound Of Perseverance
Death
Peak
90
Weeks
2
Number
91 Debut

OK Computer
Radiohead
Peak
91
Weeks
1
Number
92 Debut

Kid A
Radiohead
Peak
92
Weeks
1
Number
93 Down by 10

Hour Of The Nightingale
Trees Of Eternity
Peak
83
Weeks
2
Number
94 Up by 2

From Mars To Sirius
Gojira
Peak
94
Weeks
2
Number
95 Down by 30

Trisagion
Ethereal Shroud
Peak
65
Weeks
2
Number
96 Down by 26

Solar Paroxysm
Mare Cognitum
Peak
70
Weeks
2
Number
97 Down by 8

Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park
Peak
89
Weeks
2
Number
98 Debut

Dissonance Theory
Coroner
Peak
98
Weeks
1
Number
99 Down by 22

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Peak
77
Weeks
2
Number
100 Down by 2

Atoma
Dark Tranquillity
Peak
98
Weeks
2

Dropouts

Number
73 Dropout

Sky Void Of Stars
Katatonia
Peak
73
Weeks
1
Number
84 Dropout

The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
Ahab
Peak
84
Weeks
1
Number
91 Dropout

Portal Of I
Ne Obliviscaris
Peak
91
Weeks
1
Number
92 Dropout

Fiction
Dark Tranquillity
Peak
92
Weeks
1
Number
93 Dropout

Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains
Peak
93
Weeks
1
Number
95 Dropout

Aura
Saor
Peak
95
Weeks
1
Number
97 Dropout

Train Of Thought
Dream Theater
Peak
97
Weeks
1
Number
99 Dropout

Night Is The New Day
Katatonia
Peak
99
Weeks
1
Number
100 Dropout

Facelift
Alice in Chains
Peak
100
Weeks
1

A chart by

RD Yearly Top 100

Date

December 31, 2025

Albums

100

https://www.crownnote.com/album-charts/rd-yearly-top-100/my-top-100-albums-of-all-time-2025-0

1 1 The Mantle 1(×2) 2

2 2 Blackwater Park 2 2

8 3 Winter's Gate 3 2

5 4 The Liberation 4 2

4 5 Dirt 4 2

6 6 Kinship 6 2

7 7 Lateralus 7 2

9 8 Still Life 8 2

10 9 Ashes Against The Grain 9 2

3 10 Above The Weeping World 3 2

12 11 Veil Of Imagination 11 2

23 12 Woe 12 2

11 13 Meteora 11 2

13 14 Ten 13 2

16 15 Escape of the Phoenix 15 2

17 16 The Great Cold Distance 16 2

21 17 Trench 17 2

22 18 Hybrid Theory 18 2

30 19 Heart Like A Grave 19 2

14 20 Symbolic 14 2

25 21 Master of Puppets 21 2

26 22 Ride the Lightning 22 2

24 23 Terminal Redux 23 2

27 24 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory 24 2

NE 25 Ascension 25 1

NE 26 The Sleeping City 26 1

19 27 Mirror Reaper 19 2

18 28 The Call Of The Wretched Sea 18 2

29 29 Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine 29 2

28 30 Access All Worlds 28 2

37 31 Absolute Elsewhere 31 2

36 32 Amidst The Ruins 32 2

20 33 Holy Hell 20 2

31 34 All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us 31 2

43 35 Shogun 35 2

78 36 In the Court of the Dragon 36 2

38 37 Ghost Reveries 37 2

32 38 Superunknown 32 2

33 39 Siamese Dream 33 2

34 40 Fear of A Blank Planet 34 2

39 41 Deadwing 39 2

42 42 The Fall Of Hearts 42 2

44 43 Fear Inoculum 43 2

46 44 Glow 44 2

47 45 Ayam 45 2

55 46 Stone's Reach 46 2

NE 47 From Zero 47 1

50 48 Ænima 48 2

41 49 Origin of Symmetry 41 2

49 50 Absolution 49 2

15 51 In The Nightside Eclipse 15 2

45 52 Storm of the Light's Bane 45 2

48 53 Convergence 48 2

35 54 Echoes Of Battle 35 2

52 55 Jar of Flies 52 2

53 56 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 53 2

56 57 Marrow Of The Spirit 56 2

74 58 Across The Dark 58 2

61 59 Black Holes and Revelations 59 2

57 60 Lost Forever // Lost Together 57 2

51 61 Écailles De Lune 51 2

58 62 Les Chants De L'Aurore 58 2

62 63 Axioma Ethica Odini 62 2

54 64 Kivenkantaja 54 2

59 65 The Storm Within 59 2

60 66 Clancy 60 2

63 67 Powerslave 63 2

72 68 Painkiller 68 2

75 69 ...And Justice For All 69 2

NE 70 Last Fair Deal Gone Down 70 1

87 71 Pale Folklore 71 2

66 72 Badmotorfinger 66 2

67 73 Vs. 67 2

68 74 Transience 68 2

40 75 Citadel 40 2

69 76 Illuminate The Path 69 2

81 77 Images and Words 77 2

82 78 Somewhere in Time 78 2

NE 79 Colors 79 1

90 80 A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) 80 2

64 81 Voimasta Ja Kunniasta 64 2

71 82 Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk 71 2

85 83 Focus 83 2

76 84 In Absentia 76 2

79 85 False Light 79 2

80 86 Hidden History of the Human Race 80 2

86 87 Vessels 86 2

88 88 Watershed 88 2

NE 89 The Last Will and Testament 89 1

94 90 The Sound Of Perseverance 90 2

NE 91 OK Computer 91 1

NE 92 Kid A 92 1

83 93 Hour Of The Nightingale 83 2

96 94 From Mars To Sirius 94 2

65 95 Trisagion 65 2

70 96 Solar Paroxysm 70 2

89 97 Minutes to Midnight 89 2

NE 98 Dissonance Theory 98 1

77 99 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 77 2

98 100 Atoma 98 2

DROPOUTS:

73 -- Sky Void Of Stars 73 1

84 -- The Boats Of The Glen Carrig 84 1

91 -- Portal Of I 91 1

92 -- Fiction 92 1

93 -- Alice in Chains 93 1

95 -- Aura 95 1

97 -- Train Of Thought 97 1

99 -- Night Is The New Day 99 1

100 -- Facelift 100 1

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